In an epistle to Friends everywhere, Uganda Yearly Meeting celebrates that at their recent annual meeting, September 7–11, 2016, incoming leaders peacefully assumed the responsibilities of the outgoing leadership. The Yearly Meeting writes:
The UYM has made phenomenal history at its 30th Annual General Meeting (September 7 to 11, 2016) at the Mbale Friends Church, also headquarters of the UYM. There was a peaceful handover of the UYM leadership. The Conference was themed:
Romans 12:2b: “But let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.”
We attribute the remarkably smooth transfer of “authority” to the Conference theme and an unprecedented March 2016 UYM Pastors Conference at which the Friends Theological College Kaimosi Principal Dr. Robert J. Wafula and his team urged the UYM to go for total unity, peace, transformation and transparency. This was the real turning point. About six months later, at the Annual Conference, the unparalleled broad consensus to accept the new leadership without any objections that have bedeviled the UYM for decades was momentous and extraordinary.
A copy of the entire epistle can be downloaded here.
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